Any issues with sitting for MB's friend?

[Anonymous]

I am a fulltime nanny and do babysit for other families on weekend and evenings. However I have always gotten these second jobs on my own. Yesterday, MB asked is I could sit for her friend's baby. I have heard that there are often issues with sitting/caring for your MB's friends - such as the friend not liking you as much as your MB does and it effecting your relationship with your MB. What do you nannies think?

[Anonymous]

If you are a ho-hum nanny that might not be liked by the friend then don't do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are a ho-hum nanny that might not be liked by the friend then don't do it.

Even if I were just a "ho-hum" nanny, I probably wouldn't know it, would I? Thanks for the useless "advice". If I weren't a great nanny, I doubt that MB would recommend me.

[Anonymous]

Don't tell "tales out of school" to either your MB or the friend. Don't do more or less for the friend than you do for MB. I generally avoid these situations but have done it a couple times and everything went fine.

[Anonymous]

Do not do this. Trouble with a capital T.

[Anonymous]

It is generally a bad idea, OP. I would avoid the situation entirely. But if you have already accepted the job, make sure to say little if anything about MB to the friend or vice versa. And you have to be spectacular with the friend's child. The last thing you want is for the friend to tell MB that you were just "okay".

[Anonymous]

Do what you want, OP, and allow the parents to deal with their own issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are a ho-hum nanny that might not be liked by the friend then don't do it.

Even if I were just a "ho-hum" nanny, I probably wouldn't know it, would I? Thanks for the useless "advice". If I weren't a great nanny, I doubt that MB would recommend me.

Being recommended means nothing Ms. Ho-hum. People recommend their 15 year old neighbor kids to babysit for friends all the time, is that cause they are great sitters?

[Anonymous]

I do this all the time. All the time. Never once had an issue. Do it. That's how you build a network of people who call you. I worked ad hoc jobs for more than two years based solely on referrals. No issue with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are a ho-hum nanny that might not be liked by the friend then don't do it.

Even if I were just a "ho-hum" nanny, I probably wouldn't know it, would I? Thanks for the useless "advice". If I weren't a great nanny, I doubt that MB would recommend me.

Being recommended means nothing Ms. Ho-hum. People recommend their 15 year old neighbor kids to babysit for friends all the time, is that cause they are great sitters?

Different poster here, but you need to just go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't tell "tales out of school" to either your MB or the friend. Don't do more or less for the friend than you do for MB. I generally avoid these situations but have done it a couple times and everything went fine.

This is excellent advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are a ho-hum nanny that might not be liked by the friend then don't do it.

Even if I were just a "ho-hum" nanny, I probably wouldn't know it, would I? Thanks for the useless "advice". If I weren't a great nanny, I doubt that MB would recommend me.

Being recommended means nothing Ms. Ho-hum. People recommend their 15 year old neighbor kids to babysit for friends all the time, is that cause they are great sitters?

Different poster here, but you need to just go away.

+1 It is the same bitter woman who always haunts this board. Pathetic hag.

[Anonymous]

I recommend our great nanny all the time to friends and over the years they have recommended her to other friends. Usually, the only thing I hear from them is that they had her sit and she was fantastic, end of story. She never mentions other sitting jobs and I never ask because it isn't my business. It also isn't my business to worry about what she will say about us.

So, it can work. It's a matter of respecting boundaries.

[Anonymous]

I think that if you are a good nanny and you are so good that you came highly recommended by your MomBoss, then go for it.

I get most of my jobs by word of mouth.